St. Ephraim and St. Isaac the Syrians icon Mounted on wood Sizes:5 X 7

St. Ephraim and St. Isaac the Syrians icon Mounted on wood Sizes:5 X 7Contemporary orthodox icon of Saint Ephraim (Ephrem) and Saint Isaac the Syrians.

This is not to say that holiness cannot be reached within marriage that is also very

free from all alteration and permanently consecrated to the contemplation of the divine glory

captured and executed him

Then he ordered the brethren to take candles and sing the Canon for the Departure of the Soul From the Body

and bringing forth the fruits of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23)

the forty virgin martyrs did not simply show patience and perseverance through these various tortures

that the desert-dwellers and monks would firmly support the Orthodox teaching

filled with the Holy Spirit

When morning came the saint went to his flock

on the night that Christ was betrayed he followed after Him

the priest Zechariah

barely twenty years old